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Duplicate Content for e-commerce help

I know I have duplicate content issues and Moz has shown me the issues on ecommerce websites.

However a large number of these issues are for variations of the same product. For example a blue, armani t-shirt can be found on armani page, t-shirt page, armani t-shirt page and it also shows links for the duplicates due to sizing variations.

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what this will do it tell Google (or other search engines) that the product is a duplicate so what would do is tell Google that the Armani t-shirt is the original and put the tag on the colours pointing back to the Armani t-shirt page. then you won't have duplicates because any value will be passed to the original. The only minor problem is the other won't be indexed but if its just a colour issue this is not normally a problem.

If your cart system allows this, you could also have the sizing done through javascript as a variable, so that it does not change the URL for the different filters. This way you can still pass the values through for your store, but not have 5 different pages for every product.

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